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like vietnam and the philippines drag us into a war with china over the south china sea. it is about clever balancing and in any case the u.s. has so much shale oil deposits in texas, louisiana and other places i could name which is about geography that we are going to be because of energy reserves going to be a significant power for decades to come in any case so now is the time to try to get allies and like-minded others to do more. >> this book has on the cover blurb from henry kissinger. this is obviously a set of arguments to consider very seriously. let's go to the audience for questions. keep your questions free and identify yourself. yes? >> hello. i am from the world of politics and wanted to ask you about russia because the argument that you present about russia and security has been essentially used, the argument has been employed to justify pretty much any and all expansion from moscow and the soviet period. what about the interests of the country's around russia that are impacted by this alleged russian need for security? >> this russian need for insecurity g
like vietnam and the philippines drag us into a war with china over the south china sea. it is about clever balancing and in any case the u.s. has so much shale oil deposits in texas, louisiana and other places i could name which is about geography that we are going to be because of energy reserves going to be a significant power for decades to come in any case so now is the time to try to get allies and like-minded others to do more. >> this book has on the cover blurb from henry...
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china in 1981? i have been there. i knew china wasn't free. was it really possible there could be a place that was north korea could be worse? thirty years later, we know the answer to that question. north korea is the world's most repressive state. the people are the slaves of the kim family regime which controls every aspect of their love -- lives even whether they are get to eat. religion is banned, there is no rule of law, and perceived political infractions are met with harsh punishment. punishment that it needed out to three generations of person's family. a political offender knows that with he goes to prison, his parents and his children will probably go with him. there are probably about 200,000 north koreans today, and more than a million perhaps as high as 2 million have already died there. the reason we know all of this is and much, much more is thanks to the testimonies of north koreans who have escaped. these are the people i write about in my book. this knowledge comes to us despite the best effort of the kim family regime to ke
china in 1981? i have been there. i knew china wasn't free. was it really possible there could be a place that was north korea could be worse? thirty years later, we know the answer to that question. north korea is the world's most repressive state. the people are the slaves of the kim family regime which controls every aspect of their love -- lives even whether they are get to eat. religion is banned, there is no rule of law, and perceived political infractions are met with harsh punishment....
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of china to save korea. no one can accomplish this feat on his own. some people can get out of north korea on their own and the hand of the rescuers rarely reaches into north korea itself, but if somebody wants to get out of china, they need help. the distances are too great and the challenge is there to hide for a north korea to do it on his own. this is where the new underground railroad comes in. like the original underground railroad in the pre-civil war american south, the new underground railroad is a network of safe houses in secret with across china. the operators are both human traffickers who are in it for the money and christians whose beliefs help them and their north korean brothers and sisters. thanks to the underground railroad, which has been operating for about 12 years, an increasing number of north koreans are reaching safety in the south and a few other countries. the explosion in the number of north koreans who are caught out in recent years is very striking. south korea keeps track of t
of china to save korea. no one can accomplish this feat on his own. some people can get out of north korea on their own and the hand of the rescuers rarely reaches into north korea itself, but if somebody wants to get out of china, they need help. the distances are too great and the challenge is there to hide for a north korea to do it on his own. this is where the new underground railroad comes in. like the original underground railroad in the pre-civil war american south, the new underground...
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must emulate china. china is part of the process of globalization that has put ever more pressure on our society, on our economy, and on every individual who has and wants to keep or wants to get a job. china's important, but the message of this book is we don't need to look at china. we need to look at ourselves, and, indeed, we do need to look at our history and our traditions. one of the reasons that a book about the american future has a backward looking title, "that used to be us" is that we are confident, and we say so in the book, that if we get back to our best tradition, we can win the future in the way that we won the past, but we have to understand our traditions. we have to update them. we have to embrace them. >> host: what's your day job? >> guest: my day job is that i'm professor of american foreign policy at the johns hopkins school of advanced international studies in washington. we teach graduate students. i have wonderful students from all over the world. students come from all over th
must emulate china. china is part of the process of globalization that has put ever more pressure on our society, on our economy, and on every individual who has and wants to keep or wants to get a job. china's important, but the message of this book is we don't need to look at china. we need to look at ourselves, and, indeed, we do need to look at our history and our traditions. one of the reasons that a book about the american future has a backward looking title, "that used to be...
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instead they go to china, and in china the north korean usually finds he has exchanged one circle of hell for another. china's policy is to track down the north koreans in their country, arrest them and send them back to north korea. where they face imprisonment or worse for the so-called crime of leaving their country. this policy, this chinese policy, is both immoral and it's in contravention of china's obligations under international treaties it has signed. nevertheless, some of the north koreans koreans who are hiding in champion, decide to risk a second escape. out of china to south korea. no one can accomplish this feat on his own. some people can get out of north korea on their own and the hands of the rescuers really reaches inside north korea itself. but if somebody wants to get out of china they need help. the distances are too great and the challenges are too high for a north korean to do it on his own. this is where the new underground railroad comes in. like the original underground railroad in the precivil war american south, the new underground railroad is a network of
instead they go to china, and in china the north korean usually finds he has exchanged one circle of hell for another. china's policy is to track down the north koreans in their country, arrest them and send them back to north korea. where they face imprisonment or worse for the so-called crime of leaving their country. this policy, this chinese policy, is both immoral and it's in contravention of china's obligations under international treaties it has signed. nevertheless, some of the north...
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china's energy, it normally goes at nine or 10%. i think right now it is not that oil supplies it won't go more than normal on a normal basis, but it will affect what's going on with the middle east right now. half of the oil exports are out of the market because of the sanctions by the united states. >> host: what is your take on solynda? >> guest: solynda received subsidies from the department of energy. i think the money was given at a time when it was thought that solar was going to be very expensive and this chinese juggernaut came in along with a real fall of the silicon that goes in it. solyndra was stranded out there and it went bankrupt. it was not competitive. if they had to do it over, they probably wouldn't give them a alone. >> host: was a smart events investment for the taxpayers to make? >> guest: you have to look at it in the context of the whole stimulus program people will say, was that the best way were the only way, because remember that those were the days of 2009 this was meant to just jump start things. it wen
china's energy, it normally goes at nine or 10%. i think right now it is not that oil supplies it won't go more than normal on a normal basis, but it will affect what's going on with the middle east right now. half of the oil exports are out of the market because of the sanctions by the united states. >> host: what is your take on solynda? >> guest: solynda received subsidies from the department of energy. i think the money was given at a time when it was thought that solar was...
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china, so far to date, brought 300 million people out of poverty. that's a big story. chinese savings in the world financial markets were a part of what drove the most recent housing bubble because all the new wealth in the world. greenspan couldn't figure it out. he did not look at the historical reality. he called it the conundrum. he was unable to grasp the reality of our historical moment. it was in part due to the failure that systematic errors were made that led to the melt down in the housing markets; right? inadequate response, policy to what was really a change in financial markets in the world. in the next 20-30 years, 3 billion people join the economy, a transformation ten times what we saw from china's change, ten times what happened in japan. now, if 3 billion people are suddenly given cognitive freedom, suddenly not thinking just moment to moment, day to day, but are creators, collaborators, are new contributors; right? yes, consumers as well. people, human beings are not just consumers. they are producers. that's what this is about. it's all the possibil
china, so far to date, brought 300 million people out of poverty. that's a big story. chinese savings in the world financial markets were a part of what drove the most recent housing bubble because all the new wealth in the world. greenspan couldn't figure it out. he did not look at the historical reality. he called it the conundrum. he was unable to grasp the reality of our historical moment. it was in part due to the failure that systematic errors were made that led to the melt down in the...
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because this is someone who spent his career wrestling with china but at the age of 87 or so, now 89 decided to try to learn something about the culture of china and reconsider his own record in the light of what he learned. he certainly had good help in writing that book and it has been fascinating to listen to him rethink his own experiences in china and the light of that 2500 year history of the riding of strategy, things are now so much clearer to me than they were when i was having to deal with these issues. when it is possible to do that it is well worth the time. >> as of former students of envy you there's an argument to be made that the 20 first century, history is moving faster than in the latter half of the 20th-century. as i see a great deal of bandwidth with an executive agencies trying to get their arms around grand strategies the personal develop strategies for the long-term i can't help but question what a waste of resources because the strategic environment so quickly changes. >> i don't buy the argument that history has speeded up. if you think about the size of air
because this is someone who spent his career wrestling with china but at the age of 87 or so, now 89 decided to try to learn something about the culture of china and reconsider his own record in the light of what he learned. he certainly had good help in writing that book and it has been fascinating to listen to him rethink his own experiences in china and the light of that 2500 year history of the riding of strategy, things are now so much clearer to me than they were when i was having to deal...
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daily newspaper which you can get outside is propaganda for the people's republic of china. i think the chinese ideas which you may have studied at the naval academy, in the next few years with our lower number of ships and sequestration an extension to china's power, how would you less manage military resources around the world? >> thank you for the softball question. admiral mullen when he was at the graduation -- chief of naval operations told us truth to power. as a junior officer not to follow on ethical lawyers, not to do anything to slow the constitution, keep that in your heart first. the question you're talking about is way above our pay grade. [applause] >> there are very important issues that we could discuss but for this purpose, for this book, our timeless lessons of leadership, hopefully we act with integrity and ability for our country. [applause] [inaudible] [inaudible question] >> hopefully that sheds some credit on the naval academy english department because i was an english major. we mobilized a lot of active duty and prior active duty military to do the
daily newspaper which you can get outside is propaganda for the people's republic of china. i think the chinese ideas which you may have studied at the naval academy, in the next few years with our lower number of ships and sequestration an extension to china's power, how would you less manage military resources around the world? >> thank you for the softball question. admiral mullen when he was at the graduation -- chief of naval operations told us truth to power. as a junior officer not...
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in china it's the opposite. so when you have stories like this, clearly been so ridiculously corrupt, he challenges the narrative of what happens when people realize the whole system is rotten to the core. and i swear that story and anyone who linked to that story was quickly censored this week. >> that was my question. how widely has the story been disseminated? >> don't underestimate the information if people want to have it. this is a sliver of china because only so much is actually online, so much as the ability to navigate the censorship controls. yes, it's being read. >> when people make the claim authoritarian governments can create economic development, they tend to say china and then they say singapore singapore in the same breath. is very democratic underground and singapore? >> areas. but if china has an example, is singapore. the chinese government has been fascinated by singapore and he was the case during the 1990s that the singaporean officials are constantly going to china and the chinese governm
in china it's the opposite. so when you have stories like this, clearly been so ridiculously corrupt, he challenges the narrative of what happens when people realize the whole system is rotten to the core. and i swear that story and anyone who linked to that story was quickly censored this week. >> that was my question. how widely has the story been disseminated? >> don't underestimate the information if people want to have it. this is a sliver of china because only so much is...
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[laughter] >> i am concerned about the debt with china. talk about the two dose solution could do expound on that? >> the question and? >> nawaz talking about the china debt and then did she go to cycle that back. >> our second shortest chapters entitled we'd sweet suite week. it is very short. this is the plan. write this down or by the down book. seriously america seriously. we will legalize it, attacks it used the profit to buy eight chelios and by a it back for dynamic and reuse of ruled that works well for minors it is only the gateway to middle-aged and back pain. drug cartels will lose the primary source of funding and inner-city violence will fall dramatically. billions of dollars wasted will be redirected to rehabilitation programs and prevention programs. those orajel will be given their lives back. are robbing convenience stores in running ponzi schemes to bilk, a result of their mortgages? no. relaxing, being creative and this piece of tastes like it was and tossed and baked in the solar flare. what restocking about again? >> t
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if you think about the other cold war that developed which was the one between communist china and the soviet union that was about personality to a considerable extent. khrushchev andmao. resources not so much. possibly this will be different in the future but i don't think that with major. >> host: the second question was about russia but also about historically 9/11 and the response to 9/11. >> guest: i heard part of it. it was about surveillance particularly. no question that the levels of surveillance have grown enormously and to some extent that is connected with 9/11. a useful thing to do studying history is to drop dramatic -- if 9/11 had never happened would surveillance increase? it might be. that is tied to the technological developments that are there. we can surveil at increasingly ambitious levels. 9/11 may have accelerated the process but that technology is probably irreversible and we are going to be living with that kind of surveillance for the foreseeable future. >> host: "george f. kennan: an american life" is the name of the book that john lewis gaddis was talking ab
if you think about the other cold war that developed which was the one between communist china and the soviet union that was about personality to a considerable extent. khrushchev andmao. resources not so much. possibly this will be different in the future but i don't think that with major. >> host: the second question was about russia but also about historically 9/11 and the response to 9/11. >> guest: i heard part of it. it was about surveillance particularly. no question that the...
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access opposed to the iran -- sorry, kuwait, qatar saudi arabia access, and it's also really about china -- i was going to say the soviet union -- but china, russia on one hand and the united states and europe on the other. you have three levels of stalemates, local, regional, and international because there's so much at stake so a country like or regime like syria for the past 40 years had these calculations in mind so this is not to excuse the regime's brutality whatsoever, but to understand analytically that the outcomes of what we have been witnessing for the past several decades involve these kinds of calculations that many of us don't take intoing the. >> host: and we have been talking with professor haddad, the political economy of the authoritarian resilience, published by stanford. he's head of the middle eastern studies program here at george mason university. this is booktv on c-span2. >>> visit booktv.org to watch any of the programs you see here online. type author or book title in the search bar on the upper left side of the page and click "search," and you can share anythi
access opposed to the iran -- sorry, kuwait, qatar saudi arabia access, and it's also really about china -- i was going to say the soviet union -- but china, russia on one hand and the united states and europe on the other. you have three levels of stalemates, local, regional, and international because there's so much at stake so a country like or regime like syria for the past 40 years had these calculations in mind so this is not to excuse the regime's brutality whatsoever, but to understand...
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these are expensive panels, more efficient than the cheap solar panels forget from china and peered china uses amorphous silicon, i think about the old calculators for solar strips. that's amorphous silicon. so we decided the outcome of the price silicon is public going to go up a silicon becomes more and more in demand comes so therefore we should invest in this new technology. but that's not what happened. the price of silicon came crashing down and a lot that comes the lenders entire business model, and along with a come your $500 million. so that's bad decision number one. subsidizing technology when you should be subsidizing basic research. i am completely in favor of subsidizing basic research. it's an appropriate role for government. once the technology launches into the marketplace to invest in the federal government should back off and say look, you have to make it on your own at this point. at some point in the solar power is the energy of the future. technology is just not quite there yet. maybe 10, 20 years from now. to the "washington post" basically said i'm not going to rea
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but i think the are making machines that are their shipping to china. i think germany is worrisome in the future. >> host: let me get back to redeploy of labor. what you characterize as a moral question, which is, i mean, we have accepted, better or for worse, greater voluntarily -- volatility in the economy. what does that mean in terms of people's lives, in terms of the somebody who is lost their job, they have mortgage, kids, this set of responsibilities and their skills may not match what in this volatile economy they need. i mean, you are sort of embracing the volatility of the economy. what do you offer that? >> guest: it's obviously a very tough question because in the creative destruction process, people are going to suffer. we know that. unfortunately though i think that when you adopt the european approach, which is to say, people are suffering, somebody needs to pay for the. the person who should pay for that is business, because they created the suffering. and there's a certain logic to it. the business is all i do is serve a customer so hav
but i think the are making machines that are their shipping to china. i think germany is worrisome in the future. >> host: let me get back to redeploy of labor. what you characterize as a moral question, which is, i mean, we have accepted, better or for worse, greater voluntarily -- volatility in the economy. what does that mean in terms of people's lives, in terms of the somebody who is lost their job, they have mortgage, kids, this set of responsibilities and their skills may not match...
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these are expensive panels but they are more efficient than the cheap solar panels we get from china. china uses amorphous silicon so if you think of your calculator with the strips, they work with silicon. the price is silicon is probably going to go up as silicon becomes more and demand so therefore we should invest in this new technology. that is not what happened. the price of silicon came crashing down and along with its solyndra's entire business model and along with it for $500 billion. so that was bad decision number one. subsidizing technology when you subsidize basic research. i'm completely in favor of subsidizing basic research. it has an appropriate role from government. that is when the federal government should back off and say look, you estimate on your own at this point and at some point solar power will be the energy of the future. the technology is just not there yet. maybe 10 or 20 years from now. so "the washington post" basically said i'm not going to read his whole quote here but the end of the line is that they gave an unprecedented glimpse as to the whole soly
these are expensive panels but they are more efficient than the cheap solar panels we get from china. china uses amorphous silicon so if you think of your calculator with the strips, they work with silicon. the price is silicon is probably going to go up as silicon becomes more and demand so therefore we should invest in this new technology. that is not what happened. the price of silicon came crashing down and along with its solyndra's entire business model and along with it for $500 billion....
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that in the last decade germany rated 2 trillion-dollar trade surplus against the competition from china, india, the asian tigers and the united states ran a 6 trillion-dollar trade deficit. so we are facing the same global competition that we were and they did $8 trillion better than we could and they were paying their workers more. how could that be? it doesn't make sense, does it? the next thing is we are told we can't compete on the old manufacturing basis. we've got to become a service economy. you've got to go out and learn knowledge shots. that's where the future is. i've got a couple of chapters on what happened to the knowledge economy in the last decade and my book. what's really important to know about germany is today germany has 21% of its work force in manufacturing. manufacturing jobs are the absolute core of a sound strong healthy economy and the absolute core of sound strong high living standards and require high tech skills and generate all kinds of jobs from suppliers, everybody else. a manufacturing job generates at least two and a half or maybe more jobs for each job
that in the last decade germany rated 2 trillion-dollar trade surplus against the competition from china, india, the asian tigers and the united states ran a 6 trillion-dollar trade deficit. so we are facing the same global competition that we were and they did $8 trillion better than we could and they were paying their workers more. how could that be? it doesn't make sense, does it? the next thing is we are told we can't compete on the old manufacturing basis. we've got to become a service...
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the rise of china is concerning. the attacks on your embassy disconcerning. exceptional feels like you're evening out. you got the piano of owl pianos on your back, and right now, even hope seems fruitless. i can tell you one thing, my country, in my country, and in others, everyone has written you off. they say we already live in a post-american world, that america's time expired, that it's done, it has no more life to breathe, that it's gone, finished. it's what the international media tells us, what our politicians tells urges what the cab driver tells you. it's time they say to prepare and realign for a world where america doesn't count. it's time to get with the chinese they say. it's time to change the way that we see the world and every time i hear these things, i think just you wait. [applause] just you wait until the americans respond to that timeless creed and says come and take it, just you wait until the american clicks into gear, just you wait until they recapture their mojo, wait until they elect a new president, one that doesn't aspire to a eur
the rise of china is concerning. the attacks on your embassy disconcerning. exceptional feels like you're evening out. you got the piano of owl pianos on your back, and right now, even hope seems fruitless. i can tell you one thing, my country, in my country, and in others, everyone has written you off. they say we already live in a post-american world, that america's time expired, that it's done, it has no more life to breathe, that it's gone, finished. it's what the international media tells...
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place of community economies who are rooted in the community are not going the shut down and go to china. they're not going to start speculating with your money was they was -- because they have to face you every day. they're not in some skyscraper in london, new york, chicago or tokyo. community economies, another solution. the third is giving science and technology back to the people. look at all the science and technology that's going on. we lead the world. huge amount of it is working on ever more refined and reliable weapons of mass destruction. chemical, biological, physical. scientific brains, technological brains. not applied to modern public transit, not applied until recently to solar energy, not applied to building practices for efficiency, not applied to advanced systems of sewage processing, water purification, not applied to science and technology for the people. we need that. we need to redirect it. one way is to elaborate the role of citizen scientists. there are thousands, now, of citizen scientists. they're volunteering for environmental groups in europe, east asia, nor
place of community economies who are rooted in the community are not going the shut down and go to china. they're not going to start speculating with your money was they was -- because they have to face you every day. they're not in some skyscraper in london, new york, chicago or tokyo. community economies, another solution. the third is giving science and technology back to the people. look at all the science and technology that's going on. we lead the world. huge amount of it is working on...
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vietnamese party was far e less bloody than its chinese and soviet counterparts, it was nothing like mao's china for the fallen soviet union, i argue that oftentimes power struggles resulted in bloodshed. in particular, i found that it had marginalized the very men that we associate with this ward ho chi minh in the general.s. he eventually set them off to hard labor camps. was what was my most amazing mindsts was the connections between the arrest of the deputies in 1967ty and the hundreds of influentialb parties. eventually come the arrests were carried out to ensure what was to be the 1968 controversial offensive.ly impoant the military plans were debated heavily in hanoi. i argue that one has todomestic understand more generally the impact of vietnamese domesticr. politics on the making of "hanoi's war." most history warm -- during thi, period, and south vietnamese forces were being eradicated byr side on troops.tion, according to the interpretation, hanoi's war was a protectiveviee measure. party although i agree that the cry for help was important, what i found was that party leaders might
vietnamese party was far e less bloody than its chinese and soviet counterparts, it was nothing like mao's china for the fallen soviet union, i argue that oftentimes power struggles resulted in bloodshed. in particular, i found that it had marginalized the very men that we associate with this ward ho chi minh in the general.s. he eventually set them off to hard labor camps. was what was my most amazing mindsts was the connections between the arrest of the deputies in 1967ty and the hundreds of...
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be a debate about the actual stimulus, not some imaginary stimulus that outsourced wind turbines to china. the stimulus almost double the domestic content of u.s. wind turbines and also doubled the u.s. and production. we are hearing about this crazy stimulus that shoveled money to the president's cronies. there hasn't been a single example of a corrupt deal. in this book probably the first real case of inappropriate political pressure was valerie jarrett summoning energy department official to the situation room to get to approve a loan but when the guy resisted the white house backed off and incidentally, the call on solyndra and there was no pressure on that one. we are moving into another election about change. the central question is whether government is capable of contributing to positive change. the stimulus is exhibit a for the republican argument which is weird because it really ought to be exhibit a for the argument that it can. i realize i sound like an obama cheerleader. it is an extremely uncomfortable role for me and there's a theme for the end of the book where i am talkin
be a debate about the actual stimulus, not some imaginary stimulus that outsourced wind turbines to china. the stimulus almost double the domestic content of u.s. wind turbines and also doubled the u.s. and production. we are hearing about this crazy stimulus that shoveled money to the president's cronies. there hasn't been a single example of a corrupt deal. in this book probably the first real case of inappropriate political pressure was valerie jarrett summoning energy department official to...
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now china is a major manufacturer but there was no panic. i don't recall anybody panicking about pianos are leaving in the u.s. and we are outsourcing our piano and losing jobs. no it is just part of the normal market process that takes place. part of the economic development. we have to let itself played out. and i discussed the piano industry in the industry and panic we can't possibly have prosperity as long as the u.s. is not manufacturing the cars we drive but that's ridiculous. i have personal regrets about that because i like the u.s. piano. i like the american piano. we just have to defer that result. and by the way i was just in brazil. they drive a lot of american cars the you know what, they are not manufactured in america. the manufacturing process these are way more advanced than we used in this country. it's because of the labor unions and in my home state of alabama on manufacture a lot of corrine in cars made in the united states. >> and mercedes >> they've saved the culture of my state. there are hundreds of spin-off busines
now china is a major manufacturer but there was no panic. i don't recall anybody panicking about pianos are leaving in the u.s. and we are outsourcing our piano and losing jobs. no it is just part of the normal market process that takes place. part of the economic development. we have to let itself played out. and i discussed the piano industry in the industry and panic we can't possibly have prosperity as long as the u.s. is not manufacturing the cars we drive but that's ridiculous. i have...
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the debt is historic the rise of china, the attack on your embassy. exceptional fields that you even now. you have the piano of wall pianos on your back. right now it seems fruitless. i can tell you one thing. my country and others others, everyone has written you off. they say we already live in the post american world. america as in time has expired is a client and finished. that is what the international media tell us, the politicians tell us. it is time to prepare and realign for a world where america does not count. it is time at and for the chinese and to change the way we see the world. every time i hear this i think just you wait. [applause] just you wait until the americans respond to the timeless agreed that says come and take it. just wait until the recapture there mojo. just you wait until they elected a president, one that does not aspire to the european model integrated before our very eyes. [applause] just you wait until they step out of their pickup truck. [laughter] with their shoulders back and head held high declaring i am coming ba
the debt is historic the rise of china, the attack on your embassy. exceptional fields that you even now. you have the piano of wall pianos on your back. right now it seems fruitless. i can tell you one thing. my country and others others, everyone has written you off. they say we already live in the post american world. america as in time has expired is a client and finished. that is what the international media tell us, the politicians tell us. it is time to prepare and realign for a world...
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i have not talked about smith, a wonderful man, you know, born in china, methodist missionaries, interesting story. it's in the book. >> one last question. >> one more. >> you mentioned allen ginsberg if the talk. as a result of the research, what's your impressions of him, his role in this, and, you know, where does he hit into all ofz&s this? >> like i think i mentioned, he just pops up, you know, on the cusp of everything, you know, and alar -- earlier on with the beats story and all of that. he played a role -- i mean, he would -- he was with leery, you know, when it started, and he was an influence, i think, how they looked at the drug experiences because he was interested in buddhism even then i believe so, you know, i think, and huxley and ginsberg i think both pushed in that direction. i think the drugs -- what you think you're going to -- your expectations has to do what happens, and if you think it's an eastern mythical experience, i think it helps make it that, and more than ginsberg, it was huxley. they had the book of the dead to use for the guide to the "psychedelic experience,
i have not talked about smith, a wonderful man, you know, born in china, methodist missionaries, interesting story. it's in the book. >> one last question. >> one more. >> you mentioned allen ginsberg if the talk. as a result of the research, what's your impressions of him, his role in this, and, you know, where does he hit into all ofz&s this? >> like i think i mentioned, he just pops up, you know, on the cusp of everything, you know, and alar -- earlier on with the...
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situations will look at that particular thing because we have global interests and we have to think of china and this. okay. a ten minute briefing of this. let's go to the next topic. a lesser reaches a crisis point. so i see a lot of convulsion. i see a lot of unknown. i see u.s. policy adjusting and readjusting as best they can to these unpredictable situations, and you know, there is a lot in my view opportunity in the wake of the arabs bring. a lot of us are worried about what type of regimes are coming to power. egypt and cheesy and libya out with some alumnus of the brotherhood. i would be less fearful that. this is new. they have political. what's that? in know, one of the things i talked to some of you about what happened with the entire as long film that came out and their reactions. and, you know, this differing conceptual paradigm in looking at the reactions to this. yes. it was a horrible film. terrible. a $5 million budget? really? somebody pocket a lot of money. truth be told him it was awful, but that is no reason to kill people in response to that. and the arab world, in the
situations will look at that particular thing because we have global interests and we have to think of china and this. okay. a ten minute briefing of this. let's go to the next topic. a lesser reaches a crisis point. so i see a lot of convulsion. i see a lot of unknown. i see u.s. policy adjusting and readjusting as best they can to these unpredictable situations, and you know, there is a lot in my view opportunity in the wake of the arabs bring. a lot of us are worried about what type of...
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on the countries, on the relationship between israel and arab other countries, because remember china has not the same relationship to israel than the united states of america. but this is a very big concern. what's going to happen in the region. we have to take this seriously. it's not only political or economic. this is the second point, the economic vision coming from the arab world. when i was talking, to the current president in tunisia i was with him recently, i don't have a problem as long as they deal with rule of law and democratic transparency for all this is is fun. my main problem with them is not the fact that the refer to islam. i'm -- my main problem is take on economic liberal economy. so this is my problem. he's a secular he has a problem with islamists because they're very, very conservative on religious terms and very liberal on economic terms. it's the same with muslim brotherhood as you know, recently dealing with world bank and imf. second thing. third thing is about education. very quickly, this is where we need to have a very deep discussion. there will be no d
on the countries, on the relationship between israel and arab other countries, because remember china has not the same relationship to israel than the united states of america. but this is a very big concern. what's going to happen in the region. we have to take this seriously. it's not only political or economic. this is the second point, the economic vision coming from the arab world. when i was talking, to the current president in tunisia i was with him recently, i don't have a problem as...
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there is porridge and she gave me a china bowl filled with warm porridge from the stove with a jar of home very black or a jam. i swirled into a purple mass trade i was as happy as i have ever been. it tasted perfect. a stocky woman came in. she said this must be the boy. there will be five of them needing tea soon. she filled a huge copper kettle. she put the kettle into the flames. and she took down 5 miles from the cupboard and hesitated, looking at the woman. the woman said, you are right. the doctor will be here soon. then the woman pursed her lips and made a noise. she said he put it in his breast pocket. having a look there yet? what does it say? i thought the woman seemed like she was somebody's mother. she said took all the money that his friends had given him to south africa, with all the money he made over the years and he went to the casino in brighton to gamble. he only meant to gamble with his own money, then he meant to make back the money he had lost. and then he didn't have anything. that is what the woman said. it was dark. but it's not what he wrote, though, so the
there is porridge and she gave me a china bowl filled with warm porridge from the stove with a jar of home very black or a jam. i swirled into a purple mass trade i was as happy as i have ever been. it tasted perfect. a stocky woman came in. she said this must be the boy. there will be five of them needing tea soon. she filled a huge copper kettle. she put the kettle into the flames. and she took down 5 miles from the cupboard and hesitated, looking at the woman. the woman said, you are right....
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difference, and the group really knows of the immigrants themselves, people from europe and india, china, all over the globe who waited in line, filled out forms, debated -- obeyed the law and a love together by liberals with those who did not say -- that does not bother liberals because they hate their rentals as much as they rules. let's set the record straight. immigrants from illegal immigrants are america's greatest renewable resource. from the very first days of our country people of come to our shores because they're one of america's promise of freedom, opportunity. no one took a tiny bird because they heard that in america the government gives stuff or that there is a special loan program for people a certain race or ethnic background. they came here illegally and that justling ago but recent to change america to be the love that the way it is. they came because the idea of america, rewarding hd work and encouraging of japan your's complex family and freedom and got him and that is why they come. they come to be americans and raise american children. no one is more patriotic than
difference, and the group really knows of the immigrants themselves, people from europe and india, china, all over the globe who waited in line, filled out forms, debated -- obeyed the law and a love together by liberals with those who did not say -- that does not bother liberals because they hate their rentals as much as they rules. let's set the record straight. immigrants from illegal immigrants are america's greatest renewable resource. from the very first days of our country people of come...
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so he thinks that southern china started the 1918 flu. like he says, it started every other major pandemic in this century. c-span: now just three years ago, you just--you say hong kong had a big scare in 1997. >> guest: they did. c-span: what was that? and did--did we know about that here? i mean, did people... >> guest: well, i--i knew about it, but i didn't pay a lot of attention to it because i thought scientists were overreacting. i no longer think that. but at the time, what had happened was there were some--there was a flu in hong kong that seemed to be killing young people. they were getting really sick and they were dying. c-span: be--you mentioned one young... >> guest: well, first there was one young boy who died. he got sick and he died. and it was very strange, because this doesn't normally happen. and there was a big investigation: what kind of flu did he have? it turned out that he had a bird flu. and that's really weird, because bird flus don't normally infect people. so immediately sort of the alarm bells go off. is this
so he thinks that southern china started the 1918 flu. like he says, it started every other major pandemic in this century. c-span: now just three years ago, you just--you say hong kong had a big scare in 1997. >> guest: they did. c-span: what was that? and did--did we know about that here? i mean, did people... >> guest: well, i--i knew about it, but i didn't pay a lot of attention to it because i thought scientists were overreacting. i no longer think that. but at the time, what...
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american southcom of a new underground railroad is a network of safe houses and a secret routes across china. the operator service human traffickers better in that for the money at christians whose religious beliefs and impel them to help their number three in brothers and sisters. thanks to the underground railroad which has been operating for about 12 years and an increasing number of north koreans are reaching safety in the south and a few other countries the explosion in the number of north koreans who gotten out of the recent years is very striking. south korea keeps track of the north koreans to reach south korea, and let me share with you just a couple of the numbers. in 1990, only nine north koreans were able to reach south korea. last year 2,700 north koreans reached safety in the south. so, the people who get out now have formed -- there are enough of them that they are educating us about truth of our trivia and there's been several books published about life in north korea, and we now have a much better picture of what the truth of the existence is. .. >> you can't even mail a let
american southcom of a new underground railroad is a network of safe houses and a secret routes across china. the operator service human traffickers better in that for the money at christians whose religious beliefs and impel them to help their number three in brothers and sisters. thanks to the underground railroad which has been operating for about 12 years and an increasing number of north koreans are reaching safety in the south and a few other countries the explosion in the number of north...
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they desperately need work and also they would be paid a decent wage relative to china and we wouldn't have any more -- we would be able to cut down immeasurably on street crime if they had something constructive to do. >> guest: interesting point. it is true we have seen in the success of technology companies, apple and google and amazon, we have seen a great success in american innovation as part of our society where we agree the companies have been tremendously successful and we lead the world in terms of technology but a lot of the jobs that are being created to build those gadgets are overseas in china and so there is a question how these companies can help us deal with the unemployment problem we have or lack of good manufacturing jobs but let me make an additional point which is a big one in "future perfect: the case of progress in a networked age" which is this. there is the interesting questions about why the tech sector has been so successful. one thing we agree on in the state of the economy, technology companies and silicon valley and seattle and new york are the envy of th
they desperately need work and also they would be paid a decent wage relative to china and we wouldn't have any more -- we would be able to cut down immeasurably on street crime if they had something constructive to do. >> guest: interesting point. it is true we have seen in the success of technology companies, apple and google and amazon, we have seen a great success in american innovation as part of our society where we agree the companies have been tremendously successful and we lead...
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many of them are in china. and so there is a question how these companies can help us deal with unemployment problem we have or lack of good manufacture manufacturing jobs in this country. let me make a point which is in "future perfect". there is question why the tech sector has been so successful. one then we all agree on the state of the economy, that the technology companies in silicon valley and seattle, increasingly in new york are the kind of envy of the world and one key reason for that i think is that the internal structure of these corporations was much more pure network way it worked. much lies hierachical, the decision making in silicon valley firm is much less about the boss at top and much more empowering local employees to make decisions on their own, to innovate on their own. they're much more egalitarian the way they share the proceed. a lot of these company have extensive stock options plans where the lowest level employee participates when the company goes public and so on. all that stuff was
many of them are in china. and so there is a question how these companies can help us deal with unemployment problem we have or lack of good manufacture manufacturing jobs in this country. let me make a point which is in "future perfect". there is question why the tech sector has been so successful. one then we all agree on the state of the economy, that the technology companies in silicon valley and seattle, increasingly in new york are the kind of envy of the world and one key...
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she gives us a story a long island businessman in china working for walmart, attending an underground church who happened to cross a couple of north korean refugees and he gets so move he decides he's as a part time activity help these north korean refugees escape from china. he gets arrested, he spends three years in jail before returning to the united states and deciding to dedicate his entire life to saving north korean. cannot possible read the bock without being moved to tears in just about every single chapter. and the stories are incredible they go in to greater detail on some of these momentarily. melanie kirkpatrick, whom jay will introduce her shortly using the best of the journalist sensibility honed at nearly three decades at the "the wall street journal" to highlight the human side of north korea. we are deeply proud of her and we look forward to her comments today. copies of the escape from north korea are available for purchase at the event for $20 and melanie kirkpatrick will be glad to sign your copy. it's available online at amazon.com. i urge all of you to read it a
she gives us a story a long island businessman in china working for walmart, attending an underground church who happened to cross a couple of north korean refugees and he gets so move he decides he's as a part time activity help these north korean refugees escape from china. he gets arrested, he spends three years in jail before returning to the united states and deciding to dedicate his entire life to saving north korean. cannot possible read the bock without being moved to tears in just...
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china gets more oil. and it's kind of one of the questions i really leave on the table. how in five or ten years will the strategic balance change. but i think it is, you know, that region is still going to be central to the world's economy and central to the countries we're most closely involved in. so i think there's a strategic interest which is greater than whether a barrel has an american flag on it or not. >> host: and here is the cover of the book. it is called "the quest." daniel yergin won the pulitzer for his last book on energy called "the prize." 202-585-3885 if you live in the east and central time zones, 585-3886 for those in the mountain and pacific time zones. steve mufson of "the washington post", energy reporter, is also with us live at the national book festival. the first call for our guest, daniel yergin, comes from russell in bell month, pennsylvania. russell, you're on booktv on c-span2. please, go ahead. >> caller: well, hello, i'm happy to speak to you. this past week i saw a line on nbc television which said that a study by a major university in
china gets more oil. and it's kind of one of the questions i really leave on the table. how in five or ten years will the strategic balance change. but i think it is, you know, that region is still going to be central to the world's economy and central to the countries we're most closely involved in. so i think there's a strategic interest which is greater than whether a barrel has an american flag on it or not. >> host: and here is the cover of the book. it is called "the...
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north koreans must first go to china. they cannot go south because the dow militarized zone along the 38 parallel is the most militarized border in the world and a possible to get across unless you are a shoulder at -- soldier shown the safe route. instead they go to china. then they have exchanged one circle of hell for another. china's policy is to track down the north koreans, send them back and arrest them with a face imprisonment or worse for the crime of leaving their country. this policy of china is immoral and violation of international treaties it has signed. nevertheless north koreans decide to risk an escape nobody can accomplish this on his own some people can get out of north korea on their own but if they want to get to as out day shattered china they need help. this is where the new underground railroad comes in. like the original three civil war american south it is the network of safe houses the operators are traffickers and christians whose religious beliefs compel them to help the korean brothers and si
north koreans must first go to china. they cannot go south because the dow militarized zone along the 38 parallel is the most militarized border in the world and a possible to get across unless you are a shoulder at -- soldier shown the safe route. instead they go to china. then they have exchanged one circle of hell for another. china's policy is to track down the north koreans, send them back and arrest them with a face imprisonment or worse for the crime of leaving their country. this policy...